AUGUSTA, Ga. >> Living in the Land of Odds during the week of the Masters will test the knowledge of even the most ardent follower of the game of golf.

Back in the day when looking at the big board in most Las Vegas sportsbooks, a potential client might find a simple set of numbers on a certain number of golfers predicted to win the first major tournament of the season.

Tiger Woods would be listed as the favorite at 6 to 1 or so and the rest of his contemporaries’ numbers would fall in line and that would probably be it. Some casinos might go a step farther by adding head-to-head matches with the marquee players and set odds accordingly. In those Las Vegas days, it was still baseball and the NBA playoffs that drew the most attention of sports gamblers.

But with the invention of the Internet and all the applications that go with it, those days have changed. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the potential marriage between golf and gambling when in Hawaii in January for the two tournaments on Maui and Oahu.

He sees the interest in the game expanding once you bring gamblers into the tent and allow them to bet on practically anything throughout the 10-hour rounds played four times a week. Imagine betting live during the closing nine holes on Sunday as odds continually shift based on where a golfer is on the leaderboard.

This week in Las Vegas, West Gate casino handed out a stapled booklet of six front-and-back pages of bets golf fans could have wagered on during the Masters ranging from your standard odds and head-to-head matches to so much more than we can list here.

When they teed it up this morning, Rory McIlroy was the favorite to complete his career Grand Slam at 7-1. The second betting favorite was world No. 1 Dustin Johnson at 10-1 with old past Masters champions Jose Maria Olazabal, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize and Ian Woosnam garnering the longest odds at 5,000-1. Here’s a hint for those thinking a $10 bet might have been worthwhile on any of those last four, their average age is nearly 60.

There were so many better wagers than that, including odds on the top senior finisher in the field where Bernhard Langer was a 7-5 choice. You could also have bet on the top amateur finisher where somebody named Viktor Hovland was the 2-1 favorite. In all, West Gate oddsmakers listed nearly 200 proposition bets on anything you can imagine from a golf tournament.

Some of the more interesting ones can be found deep in the betting sheets. As an example, only McIlroy at minus 140 is favored to finish in the top 10. Johnson is second at plus 105, but you could have found some pretty good odds on very good golfers to fall into this tight category. Defending U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka was plus 275 to finish in the top 10.

Other props included the over/under of the finishing score, which was set at 2741⁄2, the over/under of the 36-hole cut (1471⁄2), lowest completed round (641⁄2) and whether there will be a hole-in-one (minus 140). If you think top choice McIlroy won’t even make the cut, a $100 bet will earn you $900. Yeah, McIlroy is making the cut. In case you want to bet that, a $1,600 wager will earn you only $100. To make $900, you have to lay $14,400.

There are many wagers as fun as that one and will make the Masters that much more entertaining for the casual fan. It’s a new era we’re entering with gambling being legalized more and more across America. Hawaii might want to consider joining in the fun, which would allow people living in the 50th state to make any of these wagers to West Gate by telephone.

You get the idea. Monahan sure did.